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The Connection (1961) by Shirley Clarke

Thursday, August 12, 1982, 8:00 pm

Shirley Clarke’s Underground Classic

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

The Connection (1961) by Shirley Clarke 

Moving In (1982) by Jeffrey Skoller

Set in a broken-down Manhattan tenement in which a group of junkies await their Man, Clarke’s first feature was the most ambitious film from the Underground in its time. Adapted from Jack Gelber’s play, it features the young radical Living Theater group and music by Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Michael Mattos, and Larry Ritchie.